Attached Link: A beautiful Amosphere world to explore

This link requires that you've downloaded and installed the free Atmosphere Browser plug-in (sorry Windows or virtual PC only for now) from Adobe- here's the link to the DL area. http://www.adobe.com/products/atmosphere/main.html If you already have the browser installed, check out this recreation of Dark City from Ham on Rye, builders of some of the best virtual reality entertainment systems in use today. This world begs for more Poser Pro Pack Avatars. (more on another way to get Avatars in a few more days...) It's a cool place to explore and I hope it intrigues you as much as it intrigues me. A clue, once in the library, check out the doors to change worlds... Steve Cooper Curious Labs

This may save you some grief......

I have been trying to download the Atmosphere stuff from the Adobe site since yesterday evening but keep getting errors. I have been on the phone to them and they know that they have a server issue which they are addressing. I'm going to keep trying periodically. So if you get a similar error message rest assured that they know about it and are sorting it out as quickly as they can.

Steve is right though, online 3D worlds are going to be extremely popular. Poser folks will be very well positioned to take full advantage of them.

In the mean time.... would you like to ride through a virtual world on a virtual horse?

as long as the horse doesn't talk... ;-) kupa

... ALL the Poser world must listen!!!

Yo... The previous builds supported WinNT, but this installer insists I should downgrade to 98. What gives? And when did Adobe start releasing software before it was dual-platform available? F'crying out loud, they couldn't afford another copy of CodeWarrior for a glorified file filter and a browser plugin? If CL did this kind of thing there'd be hell to pay...

i had a horse tslk to me once,but thats another story entirely.........cheers!

I'm using the current build with 2000, seems to work fine. I'd ignore the installer suggestions if it allows that and stick with your NT. quick note- always wanted to be EF Hutton. ;-) kupa

Attached Link: http://www.demovision.co.uk/heads.html

About this horse thing lol

No serioulsy Avatars and interactivity are going to play a amjor roll in the world of web development. Sites that use E-Commerce will be further looking to enhance there "personalisation" aspect. An end user could type in a question "how much do they cost" and the avatar will pull the answer from a knowledge database and answer the question in person. Its something im looking into at the moment anyway so i wont bore you all. You can check out what ive done both in poser and also various other packages.

Dont laugh at the site though, im no web designer lol

Kupa: The installer doesn't give me a choice and exits. Nothing more impressive than lazy programmers who forget Win2K is built off NT.

I'd like to have a little virtual person walking in a little virual mall to shop with ;-) maybe I could even use virtual money??

lol i wouldnt bank on it! ( no pun intended there) lol :O)

I use a Mac. We may be a minority, but we're a powerful one-- and I don't care for media that doesn't make itself presentable to us, when it is so, so easy to do so.

****Yeh
i know what your saying there! Thatsprecisely the thing that puts me off buying
a Mac. I cant be doing with wandering wether that latest

bit of software i going to be available on my new MAC.......

for now ill stick withmi PC until the developers recognise that you guys exist
:O(****

Ditto from this Mac user.

What makes the whole PC/Mac thing all the more annoying is that Adobe KNOWS which platform was its bread and butter for years. Their "official" excuse on Atmosphere is that it utilizes a 3D card common to PCs as part of the driver engine, but I fail to see why they couldnt have considered that in the very beginning. Not amused one tiny bit.

I wouldnt worry about it......ive looked at atmosphere and personally i think its probably the most un-user friendly piece of software ever to grace our shelves. Thats just my personal opin of course, but i just found it hard to use and im not dummy when it come to software.........it just didnt make me want to stick ith it ....if you know what i mean! O)

Maybe I'm too old to appreciate it, but I don't really see the point to avatar-based chatting. It's an application looking for a problem to solve. Face-to-face combat games, fine, but conversation, no.